Philip Jeck

Vancouver’s ambient great Loscil returns with handfuls of foggy atmospheric saturation in ‘Equivalents’, his 12th solo album and 9th for long-term supporters at Kranky. Framed by production methods mirroring the early 20th Century photographs of Alfred Stieglitz, regarded for “abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay”, Loscil vents eight voluminous swells of greyscale harmonics and distant, aeolian melody that beckons eyelids to half-mast and bodies to the horizontal…